One by one, it seems, the protagonists in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal
are falling out of the game.

Yesterday Johan Bruyneel, Armstrong’s right-hand man and the director of the
teams who took the Texan to his seven Tour de France wins, was edged out of
his job at Team RadioShack Nissan Trek.

It is almost unthinkable that Bruyneel could remain in the industry, given the
damning nature of the evidence against him in the dossier compiled to
investigate Armstrong by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada). But
only “almost”, because Bruyneel’s management company has a share of the
ownership